Pranayama, meditation, playing bass, seeing the country, writing (music and metaphor), recording, reading, coffee shops with couches, chocolate, Indian + Japanese food, kamikaze cooking, red wine, amusing banter, shared silence.
Friends I know but have not met. Spirits who shine. Perhaps an interstellar traveler on the weekend...
PJ Harvey, Jane's Addiction, Autolux, Smashing Pumpkins, Nina Simone, Swervedriver, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Drake, The Cure, Elliott Smith, T Rex, Portishead, Arcade Fire, Macha, Tori Amos, Mercury Rev, Mazzy Star, Michael Hedges, The Swans, Nirvana, Mudhoney, The Beatles, Queens of the Stone Age, Broken Social Scene, Failure, Beth Orton, Crooked Fingers, Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Death From Above 1979, Nine Inch Nails, Sam Cooke, Depeche Mode, GNR, The Doves, Joni Mitchell, The Stones, Bauhaus, Junius, Zeppelin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, BRMC, Jawbox, Bill Withers, Beck, Acid Mother's Temple, Tears For Fears, Sigur Ros, Guided By Voices, Placebo, Jeff Buckley, Sunny Day Real Estate, Love Spirals Downward, Radiohead, Duresse, Bjork, David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Stevie Wonder, Fugazi, Velvet Underground, this is endless....
Fire Walk With Me, Amelie, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Time Bandits, Star Wars, LOTR, Wizard of Oz, Akira, Waking Life, Goonies, I Heart Huckabees, Napoleon Dynamite, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Gift, Adaptation, Dark Crystal, BladeRunner, Donnie Darko.....
A waste.
Metu Neter, Siddhartha, Narcissus And Goldmund (all Hermann Hesse really), Autobiography of a Yogi, Intitiation to Hermetics, 100 Years of Solitude, Rumi (I love Rumi dearly), Mists of Avalon, The Mysticism Of Sound And Music, Gospel of Ramakrishna, Light on the Path, 777, a good dictionary, I've yet to find a fine Thesaurus (most likely extinct), too many.....
Sri Ramakrishna, Black Elk, Joan of Ark, my teachers - Prof. Nick Cerio, Rene and Chava Collins - oh, and Batman.